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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by frereubu on Monday December 24, 2018 @08:11AM (#18751971)
Kind of interesting, but then what's the point of Facebook? Asides from invitations - which, perhaps naively, this friend did through a post in his feed - the only thing that I'd be interested by is maintaining a light-touch connection with friends who are overseas by looking at their posts in the news feed.
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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by ishan_chhabra on Monday December 24, 2018 @12:55PM (#18753262)
Biggest use cases for me has been events and groups.

1. Events: Facebook's provides a streamlined experience for hosting events and all my friends use it for birthday parties, house warming and so on.

2. Groups: Facebook's group experience is quite good and I am a part of 4 groups of like minded people that I get to have conversations with quite frequently.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by frereubu on Monday December 24, 2018 @07:00PM (#18754982)
Makes sense in terms of network effects I guess. I wonder where the tipping point is when enough people aren't on Facebook so people go back to other services and / or email.
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